Polio eradication setback in India

Polio eradication in India: pulse polio immunization.

The magnitude of the public health program for the eradication of poliomyelitis launched by the Government of India and the State Governments has few parallels. Over 87.77 million children, including 79.29 million children less than three years of age, were given a dose of oral polio on one day throughout the country on 9 December 1995. In the second round on 20 January 1996 over 93.118 million...

Setback in polio eradication in India in 2002: reasons and remedies.

Some of their observations are correct, but some observations need clarification, while some issues have been left out in the editorial. Their observations suggest inadequate vaccine coverage and non-vaccination are reasons for increase in number of polio cases in the year 2002. The authors had also indicated that OPV vaccine has not made much impact. In case OPV vaccine had made any major impa...

Polio eradication. Efficacy of inactivated poliovirus vaccine in India.

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) is efficacious against paralytic disease, but its effect on mucosal immunity is debated. We assessed the efficacy of IPV in boosting mucosal immunity. Participants received IPV, bivalent 1 and 3 oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV), or no vaccine. A bOPV challenge was administered 4 weeks later, and excretion was assessed 3, 7, and 14 days later. Nine hundred and ...

Universal immunization program and polio eradication in India.

Poliomyelitis surveillance: the model used in India for polio eradication.

Poliomyelitis surveillance in India previously involved the passive reporting of clinically suspected cases. The capacity for detecting the disease was limited because there was no surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). In October 1997, 59 specially trained Surveillance Medical Officers were deployed throughout the country to establish active AFP surveillance; 11,533 units were created ...